Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 35

The man, who loved her, thought: ‘Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will.’

Who acts: man, wife, rampion · What happens: love, think, let, die, bring, cost · To what, where: woman, wife, some, rampion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, rampion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Sooner	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Sooner	punct
11	Sooner	soon	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 thought	ccomp
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Sooner	csubj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 bring	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 rampion	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rampion	det
23	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 some	nmod
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 cost	obj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 will	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Sooner	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Sooner	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	the man	woman			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	the man				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	infinitive		your wife			tree rules
4	die	infinitive	your wife not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	bring	infinitive		some	woman	yourself obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination some=Theme
6	let	infinitive		rampion			tree rules
7	cost	infinitive	rampion not said here				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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